After all that you and your Realtor think it’s OK to hit the market with a blank Photo? You’ve uncluttered the house, you’ve painted, you’ve had a yard sale, you put stuff in storage and finally fixed or replaced all those things you’ve always talked about fixing or replacing to put your house on the market, it looks like a million bucks and then……and then….

You and your Realtor debut the house on the Columbus MLS with No Picture.  How could you do that to your house? Ready, Willing and Able buyers are out there waiting for a house just like yours.  Your home sounds good in the description but there’s no pictures. Your home doesn’t get marked a favorite or a possibility or a drive by. The buyer waits for the pictures to hit and maybe they’ll forget about it or maybe they won’t but either way, wouldn’t it be the best possible situation to hit the ground running with 18 fabulous pictures of your house uploaded to the Columbus MLS?

I’ve written about this before but I can’t get over how often this happens. It happened today with a house I noticed hit the market today, the price and the address caught my eye, I thought it was one of two homes, read the description of the home and knew right away which home it was but just to be sure I went to the Auditor’s site for a photo–just like an interested potential buyer might–and the picture there confirmed my thought, only it was four years old and surround by scaffolding.  Now, that is the image burned into buyers’ heads about your home.

The market is tough enough without shooting yourself in the foot.  It’s a small thing, a pet peave, but it really bugs me.

possibly related: No Picture of the Kitchen?? It must be antiquated

Sellers! Make a Grand Entrance.